function v. method

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

danielx a écrit :
> Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
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>>danielx wrote:
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>>>Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
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>>>>danielx wrote:
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>>(snip)
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>>>>>Obviously, such things would be omitted from your docs, but users also
>>>>>learn by interacting with Python, which is really one of Python's great
>>>>>virtues. When supporting documents aren't sufficient to learn an api
>>>>>(I'm sure this never happens, so just humor me), you can always turn to
>>>>>interactive Python.
>>>>
>>>>...and source code...
>>>
>>>
>>>*shudders* What happened to all the goodness of abstraction?
>>
>>Compared to machine language, Python source code is really abstration.
>>
> And machine language is an abstraction of pushing electrons around
> circuits. I'm not sure I see your point, unless it is simply that
> Python is easier than asm.

Python is very hi-level, and very often well-written Python code is it's 
own better documentation.